Morning journal and courier., 1887-07-27
Wednesday, July 27, 1887.
REPURLICANISm.


 on ''The Return of the Republican party" is powerful one. He shows clearly why the Republican party should be returned to power He has no patience with the t'bloody shirt" cry. He says:
 So far as platform declarations are con- cerned, all parties agree that the right of suf- frage should be maintained inviolate. Never theless, the fact is that the Democratic party is in power to day only because, by the most shameful. offences, it has overthrown this right in many places and States of the South, and, emboldened by its successes there, it has sought to succeed elsewhere by like means, as at Chicago, Indianapolis, Colum bus and Cincinnati. This is said to be an old question and sectional one, and there are many who affect to dispose of all allu- sions to it with contemptuous sneer about the 'fbloody shirt" There is no answer to all this The older the question the more speedy the settlement; that the crimes com plained of are largely confined to particular locality is no reason why their commission should not he stopped, ,and the cry of ''bloody shirt" but adds insult to injury.
 Governor Foraker attributes the industrial weakness of this country in 1860 to southern free trade dogmas, speaks of the present ten dency ot the Democratic party toward free trade, and says:
 No one who can remember the weak and dependent condition of the country in 1860 needs to be told how perfectly free trade did it's appointed work. On the other hand not withstanding the wastes of the war, we have in twenty six years swelled the aggregate of our wealth from $14, 900, ,000, 900 to $50, ,O00,- GOO, ,000. The prosperity thus represented benefcially affects every human being in the United States. It is manifested by new farms, towns, cities, railroads and every kind of manufacture, industry and improvement that can be suggested by our natural advan- taees or created by the skill, ingenuity and patriotism of our countrymen. The old-time stock argument of the free trader, that tariff duties are a tax on the consumer, has been so completely exploded by practical re- suits that it is no longer. heard of, except only from those who obstinately refuse to see the conclusive demonstrations to the con trary that abound on every hand. The case of the farmer, so long and so pathetically talked about by these gentlemen as one that illustrated some kind of evil discrimination and hardship under the protective system, has become one of the most complete refuta- tions of the fallacies, since the statement cannot be successfully challenged that prac- tically everything he produces, from dozen eggs to the finest horse on his farm, brings him price, when he sells it, from fifty to two hundred per cent. higher than he ever dreamed of in free trade times, while sub
 
 from fifty to two hundred per cent. cheaper, and at the same time from fifty to five hun dred per cent. better in quality. Facts of equal potency can be cited without limit in favor of the policy of protection in it's effects upon all the other industries of the country.
 He points out that when all is said and done, the fact remains that there is vast difference between the respective standards of moral worth, political integrity and patriotic purpose of the two parties. There is not an election precinct in the whole country where any Democrat is not free and safe to vote ae- estly counted, and it has ever been so. He further illustrates the spirit of the Demo- cratic party as follows:
 Reviewing only the past few weeks, we have seen the President of the United States and Jefferson Davis uniting in words of com pliment d.eulogy on the occasions of the unveiing of the statues erected in honor of John o. Calhoun and Albert Sidney Johnston -one the author of secession, and the other distinguished for nothing except as soldier who fought to destroy his country. We have also seen the Democratic State convention at Louisville cheering to the echo MT. Henry Watterson's allusion to the Dependent Pension Bill" as Frauds patriotic pauper liniment, warranted to abolish vagabondage by pensioning lot of tramps." We have seen General Rosser ordering General Sheri- dan to keep out of the Shenandoah Valley, ,or bring his rations with him. We have seen the President of the United States, instead of joining with the loyal millions of the country in the sacred duty of scattering flowers over the graves of the heroeE but for whose bravery and sacrifice of life the government of which he is head would not be in exis- tence, going ''a-fshing" on Decoration day. And, finally, we have seen this same chief magistrate proceeding to surrender the cap tured battle-fags to what he terms the Con federate States," that they may be carried in public parade, and pointed to with pride, as though they were not still the emblems of treason, of which the people of the South should be forever ashamed. And all this for no other purpose than to make it appear that because ''the war lis over" there should be no longer any distinction between the blue and the gray, and that both should be re- membered only, and alike, for the valor they displayed, and on such basis to establish a sentimental fraternity of feeling for the pres ent, to be followed with payment for cotton, slaves and Confederate bonds by and by. This is all true and timely. better Campaign document" than Governor Fora ker's forcible and instructive article would be hard to prepare.